From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EABv4-00005H-OG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:37:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7UJYHOT022464; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:34:17 GMT Received: from dolly.gnuher.de (dolly.gnuher.de [212.227.64.154]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7UJSXWJ003535 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:28:33 GMT Received: from p54a35735.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.163.87.53]) by dolly.gnuher.de with esmtpsa SSL 3.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_MD5:16 (Exim 4.50 id 1EABof-0000Pf-Nm) for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:30:42 +0200 From: Christoph Eckert To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with Virtual Channels Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:28:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <1125383737.7521.40.camel@fyre.codelounge.co.za> In-Reply-To: <1125383737.7521.40.camel@fyre.codelounge.co.za> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <200508302028.37834.ce@christeck.de> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7UJSXWJ003535 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j7UJYHOl022464 X-Archives-Salt: 5163230f-960e-46c2-85e1-7b4842cd1f2d X-Archives-Hash: d87d7263bcc755564f1a95edb8e3e957 > Does anyone know what I can do to achieve the same effect in gentoo > that I get when using "sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=3D4" in FreeBSD, > thereby allowing 4 virtual channels for my dsp device, and stopping > those annoying "Device in use" errors when trying to open 2 or more > sound related programs. > > I have searched the mailing lists, google and the forums and have > found nothing. > > I am using Gentoo 2005.0 + esound Recent ALSA versions do softwaremixing using the DMIX plugin per=20 default. Older versions can do it by creating an soundrc file. Unfortunately this does not help with legacy applications which still=20 use OSS or the ALSA OSS emulation - like Skype or Realplayer do :( . Best regards ce =BBWer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen=AB (Helmut Schmidt) --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list